2011 Issue 1 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Trusted Source

During the last six weeks of the 2010 elections, The New York Times, Politico, NPR’s All Things Considered, Bloomberg News, CBS Evening News, ABC News and more than 100 other news media outlets repeatedly referred to one source for information on televised election advertising: The Wesleyan Media Pr…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Vanished Port: Middletown and the Great Era of West Indies Trade

By Erik Hesselberg Middletown lies at a great bend in the Connecticut River, 26 miles up from where it flows into Long Island Sound. A four-lane highway by the river at Middletown separates the city from the waterfront.…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

No Laughing Matter

Among this year’s most popular SuperBowl ads was the latest installment in CareerBuilder.com’s “monkeys” campaign, starring a horde of rowdy chimps with corporate jobs. In the ad, chimpanzees in ties and trench coats cr…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Our Man in India

By Eric Gershon ’98 | Photography By Vidyun Sabhaney William Nanda Bissell ’88 has big ideas for a big country. He would abolish the presidency and one house of parliament. He’d lift corporate taxes and income taxes, r…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: A PASSION FOR POETRY

Did you know that Wesleyan owns one of the country’s most complete collections of William Butler Yeats? Also in Special Collections & Archives in Olin Library, you’ll find more than 30 different editions of Walt Whit…